Objective: The purpose of this case report is to describe the multidisciplinary management of a boy with nonorganic gait disorder.

Clinical Features: A 10-year-old boy presented to a chiropractic clinic having had a concussion 1 week prior. He presented with lower limb muscle weakness and ataxia while weight bearing. He was referred immediately to the emergency department, from which he was sent to a neurologist at a children’s hospital. The neurologist’s diagnosis was nonorganic gait disorder.

Intervention/Outcome: Treatment consisted of physiotherapy, occupational therapy, and a psychiatric assessment. Chiropractic care including manipulative therapy was initiated 6 months after diagnosis. After 1 year, the gait disorder was resolved.

Conclusion: The addition of chiropractic care to conventional treatment may have been supportive in the recovery process for this patient. The condition required 1 year to resolve, with questions remaining as to whether the symptom resolution was a result of treatment or natural history.

This abstract is reproduced with the permission of the publisher; click on the above link for free full text.

Text (Citation)
Tagged (Export)
Excel

Email To

Subject

Message

Format

HTML
Text
Excel

To use this feature you must register a personal account in My ICL. Registration is free! In My ICL you can save your ICL searches in My Searches, and you can save search results in My Collections. Be sure to use the Held Citations feature to collect citations from an entire search session. Read more search tips.